Issue 15
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Also featuring: The Antlers, Ringo Deathstarr, Shield Your Eyes, Albums of 2011 & more...
Reviews: Peaking Lights, Aphex Twin, Smashing Pumpkins, The Lemonheads, Sun 0))), Archers Of Loaf, EMA, Hookworms, Weird dreams. Plus, we take our usual look into the world of film and music docs while Mike TV looks at the U.S series party down.
Features
Julianna Barwick hinted at greatness with Florine, her EP from a couple o...
Grouper, alias of Portland, Oregon's Liz Harris, presents something of a confusion...
I first heard Real Estate’s eponymous debut a few months ago during a boat trip in...
It took me a while to get into this album, not because it’s a ‘difficult’ listen, ...
Keeping up with - and listening to - large amounts of new music can sometimes be a...
There have been some totally great albums released this year - Total Control's ...
Some people have a knack for watching, reading or listening to something once and ...
So confident was I that Smother would win the Mercury Prize, I [almost] p...
Any discussion of Ringo Deathstarr, an Austin-based trio dealing up paradoxically ...
Released in March, the electronic pop of Natalie Beridze’s Forget’fulness ...
Speaking objectively, there were better and more elaborate albums that 2011 had to...
Fans of Twin Peaks' haunting soundtrack will find much to love in this record, a r...
Just over a year ago in a church in Iceland, Tim Hecker set to work on what was to...
Film Reviews
Dominic Allan
Redemption is a prominent topic in many a film - both fiction and documentary - ho...
Will Sharpe, Tom Kingsley
The understatement that defines the film’s style, reigning in both the humour and ...
Miranda July
Most aspects of this film are compelling enough, but it is far from free of forced...
Mike TV
Live Reviews
Aphex Twin - Hudson Mohawke - Zomby
The eleventh Warehouse Project acts as a farewell to the Store Street sub-railway-...
The Lemonheads
The Lemonheads were one of the first artists to take on the ‘Don’t Look Back’ seri...
EMA - Zola Jesus
There was a lot of talk about what a good fit tonight’s bill was going to be, a ki...
Smashing Pumpkins
Fans of The Smashing Pumpkins expecting a nostalgic trip recounting the anthems of...
Okkervil River
Much of indie-folk-rock’s appeal comes in its constant validation of the underdog;...
Album Reviews
She & Him
I do not as a rule approve of Christmas albums, call me Scrooge but they leave me ...
The Lemonheads
There was a discernable difference in tone to The Lemonheads' output once Ben Deil...
Future Of The Left
Andy Falkous loves to sing about the twisted human condition, and new taster EP ...
Weird Dreams
An indie music PR company’s dream, the East London band first came to be after its...
Mint Julep
A household name for romantic instrument-sampling electronica as Helios, and for w...
Dan Mangan
Dan Mangan may not be a household name anywhere outside of his native Canada, but ...
Hookworms
Hookworms are a five-piece band from Leeds playing krautrock-inspired music mixing...
Sun O)))
Sunn O)))’s ØØ Void is about to be reissued again - just in time for Chri...
deardarkhead
Another reissue as part of the Captured Tracks Shoegaze Archives here....
Archers of Loaf
It’s not difficult to see why Les Savy Fav personally asked Archers Of Loaf to pla...
Music Documentaries
John Dower
Live Forever takes the viewer on a journey back to Britain in the mid-90s...
